St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-16

ton of the land question, which in SUBJ
stance is simply that the landlords
be paid off in debenture
bonds bearing interest, which the
local bodies who will collect quit rents
as they now collect rates must guaran-
tee. Furthermore he proposes that an
annual contribution from the eXchequeE
OF the United Kingdom. amounting to.
e2.OOO,OO0, should become in part al
guarantee of payment for the land, i'm
credit Of the the British Bis governmens ei ens
as security for Subyention to Ireland
OF e2,O00, 600 per anDum. Although Mr..
Chamberlain verbally protests that the
British credit is not involved in the
scheme, other parts of the plan show
the same crudity of Judgment
and marvellous want of capacity to
grasp the difficulty, and it is
extremely doubtful that the Berming-
ham statesman can retain a sufficient
number OF adherents to his scheme to
warrant his bringing it forward and in-
sisting upon its adoption. Mr.. Glad
stone, at the conference of the Liberal
federation at Nottingham next week
will take opportunity to expose the
character of Mr.. Chamberlain'S plan,
and make it the ground of a general
argument that the solution of the
land question must be dependents
OH home rule. A convention Of
IRISH LAND OWNERS
has been III private session in Dublin
every day since Tuesday, but nothing
has thus resulted from the conference
beyond volumes of talk amounting to
nothing except as giving increased proof
as the meeting progressed tha
the delegates were impotent to
dc anything, even to defend them.
selves. The report of the convention
committee showing that the work the
Land Owners association has done hith-
erto has been merely preliminary, dis
plays furtive consciousness on the
part of the gentlemen formulating
it that after all nothing has
been accomplished. After a long
Wlnded rigamarole about Archbishop
Walsh'S suggestions for conference
ants and the landlords, the committee
concluded its report by boldly asserting
that the association of land owners
is willing to confer with the
representatives of tho tenants.
but nothing is sal about
the basis of conference i the most
persistent inquiry has ia I'd to elicit
anything that would th1vw light OH the
point. The conviction of impartial outl
slders is that whether their cause be-
good OF bad, the land owners aSsocia4:
ton is utterly destitute of competent
leaders, and unable in any respect to
cope with the league.
NOTES FROM ABROAD.
Mr.. Spurgeon has abandaned his in1
tention to secede from the Baptist
church and will adhere to the tenets of
that denomination. =.
The sentence of the socialist, John
Neve. to fifteen years penal servitude at
LelpSlc, has greatly excited the London
socialists, and two prominent members
of that party named Dane and Penkert,s
who are accused by their brethren Of
having betrayed Neve to the Berlin po-
lice, have been expelled from the So
cialist clubs and warned that Neve's
comrades will take advantage of the
first chance of obtaining revenge with
safety to themselves.
ImpreSSario MapleSon denies the
statement of Mr.. Warden, manager Of
the Belfast Opera house, that he broke.
his contract by failing TO. supply. the
opera company he contracted TO furnish.
The company'S wardrobe, he says, was
seized under a bill of sale for $500, but
was released upon payment OF that sum.
His company has not disbanded, as has
been stated, but is making a tour of the
provinces. MaplesOn says he received
a check from Warden to help him out of
his difficulties, but being in no need of
the money returned it.
st. Stephens Review reproduces a
fac simile of the card of Editor Stead, of
the Pail Mall Gazette, who called upon
and asked an associate of the convicted
swindler, Viscount Hinton. to reveal
certain incidents of the turf career Of
HintOn's reputed father. Lord Poulett.
The Review accuses Stead of an in
famous conspiracy to vilify Lord
Poulett, and says that the man to whom
Stead applied refused to be made a
tool of.
Mrs. Hughes-Hallett's solicitor denies
absolutely the statements of American
papers to the effect that Col. Hughes
Hallett has been using her investments,
and states for publication that the lady's
entire fortune was settled on herself
prior to her marriage at her intended
husbands own request, therefore estop-
ping him from using it even if he so de-
sired.